]]>By: Agelliushttp://www.jrganymede.com/2013/01/21/you-say-teo-i-say-doh/comment-page-1/#comment-200886
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:24:49 +0000http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=9033#comment-200886“However, I find the endless parade of “human interest” stories thrust upon us during Olympics coverage on American TV almost unbearable.”

Amen!! I remember once when I was a kid, the tennis player Chris Everett was on Letterman, and was promoting a new calendar she had come up with, showing tennis players in street clothes doing ordinary things. She thought people would be interested in tennis players as “real people” rather than just as tennis players. Letterman was politely skeptical of the idea. I thought it was ludicrous.

You make a good point, that if the media weren’t so obsessed with “human interest” stories, this never would have had to become a big deal.

Personally I had only a vague idea about his girlfriend allegedly dying. I had overheard it someplace, but it went in one ear and out the other. My wife on the other hand, though not nearly the football fan that I am, knew EXACTLY what all the fuss was about.

And the glory of the telestial is one, ….
For these are they who are of Paul, and of Apollos, and of Cephas.
These are they who say they are some of one and some of another—some of Christ and some of John, and some of Moses, and some of Elias, and some of Esaias, and some of Isaiah, and some of Enoch;
But received not the gospel, neither the testimony of Jesus, neither the prophets, neither the everlasting covenant. D&C 76:98-101

]]>By: Vaderhttp://www.jrganymede.com/2013/01/21/you-say-teo-i-say-doh/comment-page-1/#comment-200224
Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:51:06 +0000http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=9033#comment-200224My take is pretty much the same as yours: He thought she was real at first, but when the red flags started going up, he feared the loss of face and allowed the hoax to go on past its expiration date.

Incidentally, I prefer “pseudonymous” to “fictional.”

]]>By: The Junior Ganymedehttp://www.jrganymede.com/2013/01/21/you-say-teo-i-say-doh/comment-page-1/#comment-200114
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:50:20 +0000http://www.jrganymede.com/?p=9033#comment-200114We don’t know how to say this, but living the lie is just becoming too painful.